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Day 13 done. I have been working on my compression for a while so was pretty happy to get elbows to the ground in the wide legged forward fold.

Skipping another day due to life demands but back to it with Day 12 complete.

Day 11 done. I had a skip a day yesterday as I woke up too tired to do a morning pracitce then had flexibility and ballet classes in the evening. Back on track now as I don't want a day off to morph into giving up as being too much effort.

Day 10 done. So quick and easy today.

Day 9 done. I unlocked an achievement in this session that I have been working towards for years - heels touching the floor during downward dog. I love it when I actually see some progress with my flexibility

Hooray for Day 8. Nice chilled out session is just what I needed today

Day 7 completed. Nice way to mix it up but I think I overextended my capabilities in dancers poses and did something funky to my hip flexors. Or that might have been practicing pancake /turtle pose post session because I was feeling lose. All a bit ouch now

Day 6 done. That was so hard for me but probably because I had just finished a 90 minute handstand class were the focus was press handstand so I had done so many tuck planches and compression drills everything was on fire so all the boaat poses were especially gruelling. But I showed up to the mat and got my practice in :)…

Day 5 done. It feels good to reestablish the morning routine of wake up, do yoga, meditate for 10 minutes then get ready to face the world.

Day 4 completed. I can feel my chaturanga improving already - hooray.

Day 3 complete. I can't believe how weak i have gotten when attempting to do chaturanga. I do a lot of body weight strength training but when it comes to chaturanga i just flop down onto the floor rather than any mindful lowering. Hopefully by the end of the challenge I can chaturange with style.

I'm in for this challenge though I am a little late to the party. I used to practice yoga every morning but fell out of the habit last year and i am determined to reestablish a daily practice this year. Poor Flexibility and lack of range of motion have all been my greatest weakness and limits my progress is other physical…

My specific and planned out goals for 2020 are to - Be able to do a muscle-up - Be able to get chest to floor doing a pancake stretch - Get a minute hold doing a handstand or be able to a press handstand My vague goals are to get to a decent level of performance at Ballet and on the Lyra. My even vaguer goal is to drop…

Great work @Tallawah_ the handstand spotter in me wants to say "squeeze your legs together" but who cares when you are holding good balance with a nice line :smiley: I finished my 365 days of handstands today as well. Hooray. Glad to see things through to the end. My last handstand photo was far less impressive It is a…

My handstand progress over the year. I think my line has improved and legs are bigger but not much else has changed despite a year of hardcore training. Next year my focus is going to be on Lyra but I will definitely keep up the daily practice as I might even be good at it by the end of 2020

I have kept up my daily handstand practice being on Day 343. Progress has been slow. I would love to say that I am now an amazing handbalancer but I still have a long way to go before I consider myself to be good. Though I am surrounded by good handbalancers in my classes so my perspective is skewed. Nevertheless i still…

I hate it when it is a round of working on front splits and backbends in my gymnastic strength class. I always want to skip it but my teacher says the things you are avoid are inevitably the things you need to embrace and focus needs to be on long term goals not short term suffering

I can finally do chin ups

90 minute ballet class. So many jumps!

Started the day with some yoga focusing on backbends because I am keen to improve my back range of motion. Later on was gymnastic strength training focusing on middle splits followed up by a 90 minute ballet class. Ballet teacher says I am improving but I don't know - i just felt like a big sweaty mess.

Yoga to start the day. Just a quick 30 minute session before work plus 10 minutes of headstands and handstands. This evening I had a handstand class. Usually Wednesday is working on handstand press but I opted to focus on balance work and trying to get a consistent kick up so just a day of grind rather than amazing feats…

Today was ring class or straight arm strength training* 8 rounds of front lever holds 15s on the rings * 8 rounds of assisted planche tuck hold for 15s (really happy as I am on the lightest resistance band - who knows next week i might try unassisted holds which will be amazing as at the start of the year i couldn't do…

Yoga first thing in the morning. Then in the evening gymnastic strength training class focused on middle splits for an hour which involved: - Warm up - Frog stretch for 90 - Side leg lifts - 3 rounds of 10 x horse stance dumbbell squat with a 10 sec pause at the bottom of the squat on the last rep - 3 rounds of 60 sec…

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To celebrate the start of a new month I reintroduced yoga into my morning routine. It was good to do some stretching before work especially as my hip flexors were very sore after Monday's leg stuff. Tonight was Gymnastic Rings class again and it was brutal. Warmup Wrist mobility 10 RIng Rows using false grip x2 10 Push ups…

Public holiday in my part of the world so a big exercise day. Started off the day with a lower body strength training session with a new trainer whose specialty is parkour so he though lots of jumps would be awesome - 10 minutes of dynamic jumps on various heights of boxes s - 3 rounds of barbell back squats 6 reps. I am…

Today was gymnastic rings training session - so hard but so fun Workout consisted of 30 minutes movement pattern warm-up (Ido Portal style) Then -wrist warmup - 5x2 Muscle ups using the harness trainer - 5 x 5 sets up eccentric chin ups using doing 3s pauses at top, middle then just before the bottom - 5x5 dips - 3 x 5…

Today was upper body strength training class. Warm up - Wrist mobility exercises - Shoulder mobility exercises - 60 sec scapular pull ups - 60 wall handstand hold Then - 8 rounds of front levers on the rings - 8 rounds of band assisted tuck planches - 5 rounds of barbell rows - 5 rounds of seated overhead dumbbell press -…

Revisiting this challenge for October 2019 as I would love to improve my middle and front splits. I do a weekly class focused on splits so it would be good to see if doing a daily stretch regime accelerates progress at all (unlikely but stranger things have happened)

Just before the accident